Hi Sam,

For selective-focus stuff, have you thought about getting a Lensbaby Muse or Lensbaby Composer?

Focus of this kind is far easierly brought about with a "Lensbaby".

I think you did well with the TS! I especially like the third shot!

I always appreciate the effect TS lenses give, slective focus, lego-land-effect or just straigtning building in architecture shots with wide angles.
The 5dmk2 sure does make your life easier, otherwise at F4,5 you wouldn't be able to take this shot but not with the ISO1600 it still looks great, did you do any noise reduction ?

Anyway, nice work, as always !
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Nice shoots! I like this effect with the unfocused background and no miniature look, more natural and dynamic.

This would be biketrials, and one of those lads is probably Robin Leech.

I think its a great use of the lens. Its working.

One other thing...

Because of the plane of focus the lens creates, it would have helped to lower your f/stop. There's a bit too much depth of field focus in the plane. I have the 24mm for my architecture work and it has a crazy depth of field. I assume the 45mm can do more at limiting it.

It's actually a bike trials (sport) demo, rather than just wheelies though they do a lot of hopping on the rear wheel. Nice pics!

Amazingly done. I think you were brilliantly successful!

i think the T/S selective focusing works quite well for #1, but a "regular" lens might have done a better job with #2 and #3. just my $.02, though...

nice use of t.s.

I possibly like this effect more then the Lensbaby.

You were definitely successful at drawing the eye to one subject in the frame. Keep up the great shots with the tilt shift.

I think it was successful. These photos don't have a miniature look to them at all. The second one is especially sick.

Well, that's definitely successful: I only undesrtood the trick when seeing that you were using a Tilt & Shift, so... great job!

I think these photographs were a success. Great work, as usual.

I'd say successful :) especially the first one. Ballsy :) Great shots as usual. The middle one really draws me in with it's subtle varying shades of gray-blue. Feels very Canadaian :)

Nice - I think you accomplished what you were going for in the first two pics. The third one is really neat, but feels more like a minature (albeit a larger scale one).

The tilt shift did not seem to me to make it look toy here, but the defocused parts are not on the same plane as I would expect with a prime lens shot at say f1.2. Kind of like creating a focus vignette...I hope I am explaining that right. I think it still achieved the desired result of drawing more attention to the subject.

I have never worked with a tilt shift lens, a lensbaby, or created tilt shift effect in post processing. It looks like it would be really challenging to use effectively and maybe even fun. I always see a new lensbaby (2 I think) Nikon mount at a store I frequent for $96 US. It doesn't seem terribly expensive. I kept thinking I should get it...but always leave without one. Maybe next time I see it.

I really like the effect you got her wit the TS-E 45mm. I do see that you did pull off the non-miniature effect. It's an amazing focus you got on just the subject alone.

I don't think this lens works for this sort of thing - the focus is too heavy and unsubtle. It's possible to draw attention to something without compromising the quality of the whole image.

It's also done strange things to the outline of the people's heads in front of the ramp in the bottom picture. Abberation or something? Surely not, with this piece of glass...

"I was trying to use the selective focusing to draw attention to one subject in the frame, and not doing the miniature look thing. Not sure if it's successful". Sure looks pretty successful to me :-) It's great that someone tries new uses for the tilt shift lenses, before we all get tired of the 'miniature effect'. Keep up the good work, always a pleasure to visit your blog.